This is my 5-question interview response for a college publication affiliated with Jacksonville (FL) University. The interview took place Tuesday, February 9th in conjunction with a guest speaking appearance as part of the school's Alumni Speaker … [Read more...]
One Million Miles: My Favorite Places
Gladness and sadness, weddings and funerals, business meetings and baseball tournaments. Fishing trips and horse farms. Cons, thieves, murders, and rip-offs. Airport security and insecurity. Flight attendants, lousy food hot and cold, organized … [Read more...]
Why Companies Herd Cats
My friends in the staffing and recruiting profession stay relentlessly busy and vital to their organizations because of a universal reality: Not everyone on the payroll cares about the company paying them. Every organization, small or large, is … [Read more...]
Why the Dash Matters
I’m sorry but I don’t remember which friend I discussed this with. I shall blame that on time or coffee or the scarcity of left-handed tools in a right-handed world. The Dash Theory is an idea we slapped around because of its elegant simplicity. … [Read more...]
Why Good Workers Get Stuck Doing More
I am proud of my website and readily admit I had very little to do with its design or construction, other than answer questions for a tremendous thinker, Boston's Steve Bennett. Bennett specializes in author websites. He developed my cocktail napkin … [Read more...]
Why Road Rage Occurs
My college roommate has never been an easy guy to cohabit with, a lesson his wife soon learned. He can be obnoxious. She is strong-willed. They make a fiery pair. A few years ago he was griping about needing some space. She took his dinner … [Read more...]
How to Connect with People You Meet
Ever meet someone and click instantly? Or face the opposite problem: struggling to have an easy, unforced interaction? Chances are you've done both. A big reason this happens is due to how the mind operates. People tend to think in one of two … [Read more...]
How I Create A Story (part 1 of 2)
Part I: Thinking Up Storylines & Characters It’s a long way from writing one-liners to scripting novels and screenplays but anyone who writes along that continuum faces the same challenge: the creative process. Mine has evolved over time. I … [Read more...]
How I Create A Story (part 2 of 2)
Part 2 of 2: Story Construction & Sequence In three-act structure, Act One introduces the protagonist (hero) and the dilemma. Act Two includes the stuff involved with the growing problem. Act Three is the resolution. Comedies have happy endings. … [Read more...]
How I Got My Pen Name
When my life skills book Managing the Worry Circle was released, I wasn’t totally surprised to receive global radio and coast-to-coast TV requests to talk about it. Worry is a universal subject; we all do it and people tend to be curious about … [Read more...]